Quincy Jones It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this. – Quincy Jones Black Quotes Dignified Quotes Dignity Quotes Hurt Quotes Idea Quotes Loved Quotes Slaps Quotes Stand Quotes Times Quotes Wounded Quotes Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they’re 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know? If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
Bonobo I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build… rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic. – Bonobo
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, ‘Walt Disney.’ I wanted to make films. But I wasn’t offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels. – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Paul Weller When I listen to a record, or when I’m making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don’t only listen to the guitar player. – Paul Weller
Carel Struycken I even got invited to a ‘Star Trek’ sea cruise. That was pretty exciting. – Carel Struycken
Sarah Parish I’ll see a beautiful dress in a shop, and then I’ll put it on and it looks dreadful because I’m just too curvy. I have to choose carefully – I steer clear of high necks and go for tailored, fitted things. – Sarah Parish
Nicola Walker Spooks’ was very much of its time and rather unique, so I was more than happy to be in that as a long-runner – because I think we won’t have that sort of show again. I think it was really, really unusual. – Nicola Walker
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